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fillmore or Buchanan ! 



ANNA ELLA CARROLL, 

OF MARYLAND. 
rdOaBSS OP THE "GREAT AMERICAN BATTLE," "STAR OF THE WEST," ETC. 



" >'), liotW our bleeding country save; 
Thine arm alone can shield the brave.' 



BOSTON: 

JAMES FRENCH AND COMPANY 
78 WASHINGTON STREET. 

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FILLMORE OR BUCHANAN ! 



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ANNA ELLA CARROLL. 






"O, God! our Ijlecding country save; 
Thine arm alone can shield the brave. 



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BOSTON: 
JAMES FRENCH & CO 
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 185G, by 

W. S. TISDALE, 

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of JMnssaciiusutts. 



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WIIICin-FILLMOEE OR BUCIIANAIN^? 



CHAPTER I. 



'' Our country's glory is our chief concern, 
For this we struggle and for this we burn, — 
For tliis we smile, for this alone we sigh, — 
For this we live, for tiiis would freely die." 

Americans, it is well to remember, that Mr. Bu- 
chanan, who is now pledged, if elected, to involve us 
in war for Cuba, from mere covetousness and in viola- 
' lation of all right, human and divine — opposed our 
last war with England, in 1812, and did all he possibly 
could to cause an English triumph over the United 
States. jSe denounced Mr. Madison's administration 
in terms of the severest censure, and cast imputations 
upon that good man's patriotism, which can never be 
forgotten. He and his apologists, have plead his youth, 
for that indescretion ; but, several years later, when 
a candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania, did he not 
still arraign Mr. Madison for the war? — did he not 
still assail the Democratic party, to which he now 



belongs?— did lie not then repudiate the same foreign 
influence he and it are now sacrificing America and 
Americans to propitiate ? He did. 

Here are Mr. Buchanan's own words to the point, 
after rehearsing the ills of the war of 1812 : 

" The ^rreater part of those foreigners who ivould be thus aiTected 
by it have lon^r beep the warmest'friends of the Democratic party. 
They had beeli or.e of the great means of e'evnting the present 
rulincr party, and it would have been un<irateful for that party to 
have^iboncioned them. To seeure this fore.gn feehng, has been 
the laboi- of their leaders for more than twentv years, and well 
have they been paid for their trouble, for it has been one ot the 
principal causes of introducing and eontinumg them m power, 
immediately before the war, this foreign influence had completely 
imbodied itself, with tl.e majority, particularly at the v\ est, and its 
voice was heard so loud at the seat of government, that 1 resident 
Mrdison was oblised either to yield to its dictates, or retire irom 
ofhce. The choice was easilv made by a man who jrrejtned the 
private intcrc&ts to a pubic good, and he iheretbre burned us into a 
war utterly unprepared. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ * * 
********* 
We outrht to use every honest exertion to turn out of power 
those loeakand widcd men, whose wild and visionary theories have 
been tested and lound wanting. Above all, we ought to drive trom 
our shores foreign intlucnce, and cherish American leeling. J^oi- 
ebai influence has been in every age the curse of repiibhcs — its ' 
vumdiced eyes sees everybody in fal-e colors -the thick atmos- , 
nhere of prejudice by which it is ever surrounded.excludmg trom 
its sioht the light of reason. Let us then learn windoni from ex- 
perience, and lorever banish this fiend from our society. 

Daniel Webster, was also a young man at that day; 
and in an oration he delivered at Portsmouth, N. H.,, 
in July, 1812, we find the duties of a true patriot 
exposed. And though he did not approve Mr. Madi- 
son's policy, we find marked contrast with the manifes- 
tation of Mr. Buchanan. Mr. Webster said : — 

"With respect to the war in which we are now involyef\ the 
course which our principes require us to pursue cannot be doubttuU 
It IS now the law of the laud, and as such, we are bound to regara ^ 



Li^lrs-^f^sLs'i^rtitrr n-^«^~d. The 

out. ,If'.wearetaxedtocSrVon nl'^'''"'' '" V^°"'^^' "O'" rebels 
tarn distir auisherl exan.plctM l? A' ' '^?'''. ^^ ^''^'1 disregard cer- 
wh.sk,- rebellion], and £ l^^f '7,^' ^^^^^ «-' J^- ccceTn in the 
qnircd. we should vield themto fll T ? ■'""^' ^'^'■^''^^'S are re- 
tutioual liabilitv. At the s2. f .f ''"'^^ ^'^^^"^ «f O"'- const! 

O'r opinions on thi.., as o- over, '^"'- ^^ « s^'^i'I express 

-;; .out pnssion, I „,; ^^mi^^^ u^^r^- ^^\?-r""^"^' ^ '-^^ 
at the extrav«.Hnt proure.s of rern ic'-on ^ ' '^'^'^ -^'^'^ ^^ ^ear 
dufyot opposition, or that the i tores; "f' "' ''' ^.^^^^^ «he 

abandoned by us in the \J.VTihl fLT.'^-'T'^ ^'''''^^^' to be 
necessity. By the exercise of n, , / /^ ^ ^'^■^^ ^^^"?ers an.l n-^ost 
by the peaceful nn^Jl Tf I^Z^T'TT^ '"'-''^^f sr.fFraa^-l 
don. to onr council. anJ ^^T:;^^:^:^''^ ^^ '^^^^^ ^- 

rankof na'il "' ^^ ^* ^^^^^ ^^^ «- W 

But what caused that wir ? pi„- i xi • 
land ioined T^nn '^'''^^ *^"«' «iat En^- 

the United cjf^.^ ' . ^^°PPi"§: all commerce with 

. '^ >^"ited fetates, and issued the " Orders in P. -i ^ 
m November, 1807, to that effect ^'"""' 

1 he Americans adopted their .^.^.^ in iqas « . 
all intercourse between Europe and tb.. ' ^^ 

stopped, after twentj-five Xs "f VT ''' ™ 
quilitj. ^ ^^'^'' ^^ unbroken tran- 

wf 'I' x:r !: ^-"^^ ''^'^^^' "-^ ^^^ -*« 

greater than ^TC^^^-'Crm: '"" """""^ 
England in monev L \/"** difference we ;,«,</ 

Hs -pre.e„tarr\in::cy;,"^'*i -- 



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war, in 1812 ! And yet Mr. Buchanan, in denouncing 
that war, in the face of the nation said it was no inxa- 
sion upon our rights, our commerce, or the interests 
of our merchants. Why did he assume to such, senti- 
ments, in opposition to tlie will of the American peo- 
ple? Because, the fact ^vas, that all his sympathies 
and wishes were with the Britisli ! 

There is one other act, in the puhlic history of Mr. 
Buchanan, which hetrays a moral turpitude, a practiced 
hypocrisy, which sickens the very h.eart of every honest 
man. It is the treachery he displayed towards Henry 
Clay, which three times kept him from the rresideiitiai 

office. 

Mr. Buchanan tried to mislead both Mr. Clay and 
Gen. Jackson, to effect a corrupt bargain between them. 
But these men were honest, and could not be compro- 
mised to meet Buchanan's views, who then turned 
around and charged upon Henry Clay and Adams, the 
same corrupt bargain, he sought to make between 
Clay and Jackson. 

YThat are the facts ? In 1825, the election for Presi- 
dent devolved upon the House of Representatives of 
the United States, and the contest was between Adams 
and Jackson. Mr. Buchanan, tlie political friend of 
Jackson, and under the certain expectation of reward 
for the services of Pennsylvania, shewed no common 
energy for Jackson's success. 

He believed, therefore, that to effect this result, it 
was necessary to identify Mr. Clay with Jackson's in- 
terest. Hence it was that Mr. Clay was first ap- 



proached upon the subject of taking the Premiership 
under Jackson. That you may fully understand, Am- 
ericans, Mr. Buchanan's skill mjesvitical management 
we giFc you Mr. Clay's statement, written in his own 
words, shortly before his death : 

ma who had been a zealous and influential supporter of Gen Jack* 
son in the preceding canvas., and was supposed to e.Wm- t" 
unbounded confidence, called at the lod^inj o Mr Cla't H,' 
c.ty of ^Vash,n.non Mr. Clay was at the time in tl,; room Z]Z 
only nK.ssu.a,e ,n the House, his intimate and confide cTfWend 

Srof;^j£::^'''gs;;— -- 
ea^\:s-2oC':;^h;S:L;?j?^.:™|f^^^ 

adding that he would form the n..st\pl L cld net tha ti''""'"' 

room tor a Secretary of Sta'e," look n- at Mr CI a v "tS I?" 

man (Mr. Clay) pl^yOdly remarked tim he hou'; ,^^'' S'"'^^^- 
t-mbeMhere fit for a Caiinet officer, u^Jli^ if w^l/.^^rnan 

Adams notified Mr. Buchanan of his bte Ln t ubiish tL V "• 

Any common mind will at once see tliat Mr Clay 
penetrated the corrupt scheme of Mr. Buchanan by 
the manner of his own reply. And m this paper 
written by Mr. Clay's own hand, and now held by his 
biographer, Mr. Calvin Culton, it clearly does not tell 
all Mr. Buchanan said in that interview, but directs 
Mr. Colton to write to Mr. Letcher. This was done 



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when Mr. Letcher replied promptly, declining his rea- 
diness to reveal the whole truth, hut for the pledge 
of secrecy Mr. Buchanan had extended from him, and 
from which, in a long series of years, he was still un- 
willing to release Mr. Letcher. 

Before Mr. Buchanan went further with Mr. Clay, 
he thought it best to sound Gen. Jackson on the mat- 
ter, but, in strict consistency with that great man's 
character, he was most indignantly repulsed ; and so 
far from consenting to pledge the State Department to 
secure his election. Gen. Jackson made Mr. Buchanan 
feel the force of his contempt, as he uttered these 
words: — "These are secrets I will keep to myself — 
I will conceal them from the very hairs of my head, 
and if my right hand knew what my left hand would 
do on the subject of appointment to office I would cut 
it off and cast it into the fire. Before I would reach 
the Presedential chair by such means of bargain and 
corruption, I would see the earth open and swallow 
Mr. Clay and his friends, and myself with them." 

To the close of Gen. Jackson's life he condemned 
Mr. Buchanan as the author of the bargain and in- 
trigue slander, and a letter to his old and intimate 
friend. Major Lewis, is clear on this question. And 
here it is : — 

GEN. JACKSON TO MAJOR W. B. LEWIS. 

"Hermitage, Feb. 26th, 1845. 

" Your observations with reoavd to Buchanan are correct. He 
showed n iimnt of moral courage in the nffair of the intrigue of 
Adams and Clay, (li<l not do me justice in the expose he there made, 
and I am sure about that time did believe there was a perfect under- 
standing between Adams and Clay about the Presidency and the 



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Secretary of State. This I asi sure of. But whether he viewed 
that there was? any eoiriiption in the case or not I know not ; but one 
thinor I (jo Icnow, lliat he wished me to combat ihr-m with their oicn 
%joeapons\ that wa-t, lo let my friends say, if I lous elected I would 
make Air. Clo.>i Secretary of State. This to me appeared deep cotrup- 
iion, and J repelled it with that hottest indiynaliim as I thought it de- 
served; 

"Andrew Jackson." 

Gen. Jackson's letter needs no comment ! And with 
a single remark we leave you, Americans, to make your 
own conclusions. It is this ; that while every other de- 
famer of Mr. Clay, upon this matter, openly confessed 
that great man's innocence of all bargain and corrup- 
tion to obtain office under Mr. Adams, Mr. Buchanan, 
the very man who had sought himself to make that 
bargain between Mr. Clay and Gen. Jackson, violated 
all sense of honor and right, and refused to speak the 
truth, when he himself originated the slander, which 
was ruining Mr. Clay. He not only refused to speak 
himself, but insisted upon the pledge, which compelled 
Mr. Clay's own friend to keep silence ! Need we won- 
der, then, that Mr. Buchanan should now refuse to 
speak ? Now that he " Squares" himself to the platform 
of his party, and declares anything a " finality " which 
aids his ambitious ends ! Can we wonder at the Ostend 
Conference ? Can we wonder that he winked at the 
conduct of those subordinates in London who abused 
tiieir office by putting the seal of the American Lega^ 
tion upon despatch bags filled with incendiary publica- 
tions, appealing to the revolutionists of Europe ? No, 
no ! But we do wonder, that a man, whom Gen. Jack- 
son, Henry Clay, and James K. Polk, after an associa- 
tion of more than thirty years, regard as unreliable, — 



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we say we do wonder, that, at siicli a crisis in onr 
affairs, a man with such singular antagonisms in his 
own character, shonld have been considered for the 
Presidency in this great emergency ? 

Not only did Mr. Clay leave the written record in his 
own hand to show the corrupt conduct of Buchanan 
toward him, but he further told his biographer. Dr. 
Colton, to call on Mr. Letcher, of Ky., who could give 
further information on the point. Mr. Letcher admits 
the letter, and only refuses to expose it because he is 
silenced by a promise exacted from Buchanan ! Why ? 
Because it ivould convict him of a serious criminal 
offence. 

Every sane man and woman in the land believes that 
if Buchanan was an innocent man, he would gladly 
call on Mr. Letcher to expose the letter, and thus re- 
lieve himself of a charge which has so long disgraced 
his name. 

Well might the sagacious Webster detect the Jesuit- 
ical letter of Buchanan, when tjying to exonerate him- 
self, from the moral infamy of which he was guilty, as 
he wrote thus to Mr. Clay : 

" Boston, July 24, 1827. 
I have a suspicion tliat the ' i-espectable mcnibor of Coiij;ress ' is 
Mr. Buchanan. If it should turn out so, it will place him in an 
awkward situation, since it seems he did recommend a bargain with 
your fiicud, on the suspicion that such a bargain had been proposed 
to them, on the part of friends of Mr. Adams. I am curious to 
know how this matter will develope itself. 

I am, always, truly yours, 

Daniel Webster." 



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"Boston, August 22, 1827. 
Mr. Buc'han:in is treated too gently — many persons think his let- 
ter candid — I deem it (therwise. It seems to me to be labored very 
hard to protect the General as tar as he could without injury to him- 
self. Although the General's i'riends this way, however, affect to 
consider Bu;har.an's leiter as supporting the charge, it is possible 
the General himself and the Nashville commentator may think 
otherwise, and complain of Buchanan. 

Ever truly yours, 

Daniel Webster." 

Buchanan, we all remember, was Secretary of State, 
and Marcy, Secretary of War, under James K. Polk, 
when the gallant Scott was sent to Mexico without 
proper orders for his mission. The war urns delayed, 
and many noble Americans killed, from having to wait 
for months for the Democratic administration to act ; 
when finally Gen. Scott got weary and anxious to take 
Vera Cruz, and ordered all the guns from the ships, and 
in defiance of the tardy administration at Washington, 
took the city hy storm, before they woke up at Wash- 
ington to the emergency. When Gen. Scott got home, 
instead of being received with every demonstration of 
respect by James Buchanan and William L. Marcy, now 
the Prime Minister of Pierce's administration, he was 
ordered by those very men, whose administration he 
had just saved from disgrace before mankind, to be 
tried by court martial for acting without orders ! Oh, 
Americans, who can recur to that act without indigna- 
tion, or hear the names of such men as James Buchanan 
and William L. Marcy called without horror ! 

One of the first resolutions of the Democratic party 
embodied in the platform whicli Mr. Buchanan person- 
ates, declares that " no imposture was too monstrous to 



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be imposed on the crechlity of the American party I 
This is typical of the incredible impudence of the dem- 
agogues who have aided Pierce in his administration 
by voting two hundred thousand millions of acres of 
land to the States to please political tricksters, while 
they cried out that they have no power to interfere 
with the eternal improvements of the country. 

Lot us examine the matter. 

The second resolution of the Cincinnati platform is 

this : 

" Thai the constitution does not confer upon the general govern- 
ment the power to commence and carry on a general system of in- 
ternal improvements." 

The fourth continues thus : 

"Thit the constitution does not confer authority upon the federal 
government, directly or directly, to assume the debts of the several 
States, contracted for local internal improvements, or other State 
purposes ; nor would such assumption be just or expedient." 

Now, Americans, mark the fraud by which this plat- 
form alias Buchanan, attempts to cheat you. In order 
to secure the vote of the Western and Northern States, 
another resolution was added. 

And this last resolution was put there after the plat- 
form urns made and Buchanan nominated on it. Think 
of this outrage upon the common sense of a nation of 
freemen ! And note the fact, that, in publishing the 
Democratic platform of Cincinnati at the South, this 
last resolution is not found attached to it. It is not 
found in any Southern paper, but always in the other 
sections of the country, where the people are known to 
demand a Pacific Railroad, and will vote for no man 



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as President of the United States who opposes it. And 
the Cincinnati Convention thrice voted down the empty 
resohition in favor of tlie Pacific Railroad, tliat finally 
passed after it was found to mean nothing but a mere 
trick to cheat the people. One fact, however, is not 
without ^gnificance, that, sham resolution as it was, the 
Pennsylvania delegation, the friends and neighbors of 
James Buchanan voted against it all the time ! 

When we remember that Cuba, lying within the 
Gulf of Mexico, but 130 miles from Florida, within a 
short distance of New Orleans and the Mississippi 
river, sends to us not twenty-five per cent's worth of 
its commerce, while three-fourths go to the parts of 
Europe, we discover another evil which has resulted 
from the contemptable actings of the Democratic 
party, always threatning some such scheme as Buchan- 
an's Ostend Conference to buy it, steal it, or fight 
for it. 

The South American States, too, with a population 
of 20,000,000, and a territory ten times as large as the 
United States — far richer in agricultural resources 
than our own soil — are able to give us fifty times more 
of its accumulated industry, than avc possess, did we 
now command its trade, as we should do by proper 
reciprocal treaties similar to that now existing between 
the United States and Canada, if we had been blessed 
with an American administration. 

Central America, too, had friendly relations been 
cultivated by commerce and trade, would not now have 
been ready to cut the throat of every Anglo-American 
who treads that foreign soil. - 



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The Frenchman, who, on trial for the murder of 
his father and motlier, cried put to the court to have 
mercy upon a poor orphan, did so witli quite as much 
propriety as Pierce could now ask tlie American 
people to repress their just indignation against his 
administration. 

After sacrificing the peace and tranquility of his 
country, and violating his solemn oath, to defend the 
Constitution, for the sake of re-election, he could 
get together, through the patronage of the Custom 
Houses, but 122 votes at the Cincinnati Convention ; 
■which rapidly dwindled to ! 

The Cincinnati Convention met to substitute names 
o\\\j , not to change or modify principles and measures. 
Mr. Buchanan has endorsed Pierce's administration, 
and declares himself ^Ae platform of the Cincinnati Con- 
vention, which personates, and if carried out, would lead 
to the inevitable degredation and ruin of the American 
people. It says: "The time has come for the joeople 
of the United States to declare themselves in favor of 
-^ree seas and a progressive free trade throughout the 
world." This doctrine is more baneful to the interests 
of the American laboring man, than even a foreign 
war. Americans, what is /ree trade hwi taking money 
directly from yovr pockets to pay the expenses of the 
government, instead of putting duties on imported goods, 
ivhich you would not feel? If James Buchanan is 
elected, you arc to have equal taxation, yArvoh, allowing 
there arc twenty-five millions of people, will make each 
man, woman, and child have three dollars apiece to pay 



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yearly. Mr. Buclianan approves, too, of ten cents a 
day as the wages of labor ! Think of this ! The Cin- 
cinatti Convention did not consider the ills we endure 
now were sufficient, while the government is pampering 
foreign and domestic pets, and squandering eighty mil- 
lions of the people's money, so it goes to taxing the 
poor, to increase their burden. 

Under the present plan we are only taxed for what 
we choose to purchase, and no more. Then the hard 
earnings of our yeomen must go to help to support the 
idle in luxury ; so says Mr. Buchanan when he heartily 
approves every word of the platform ! Where, where 
has the democracy of Washington, Jefferson, and Jack- 
son fled ? 

The next thing, Mr. Buchanan is pledged to do by 
the platform, Americans, is to give us free seas I 
" To insure our ascendancy over the Gulf of Mexico, 
and maintain a permanent protection over the great 
outlets." There never was a greater absurdity than 
this upon the earth, and manifests a most wilful igno- 
rance of geography. This nation has no more right to 
the soil between Cuba and Yucatan, than it has to 
Chinese Tartary ! The Caribean Sea, therefore, one of 
the outlets to the Gulf of Mexico, we could no more 
claim ascendency over than we could over the Danube 
in Austria. The Atlantic Ocean, the other outlet to 
the Gulf of Mexico is between Cuba and Florida. All 
the commerce of Eastern Mexico and Cuba goes 
through this channel ; and it will take a wiser man 
than we suppose Mr. Buchanan to be, to prove why 
jthe United States have any more right to ascendency 



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over tlie waters which wash the shores of the Gulf of 
Mexico, than other countries similarly situated. 

But if the American people elect Buchanan, they 
have his authority that it icill be attempted And 
how ? Why by submitting the people to taxation to 
the amount of $300,000,000 to construct a navy to 
cope with that of France and England, and prepare for 
war with those two great powers, and Spain in addi- 
tion ! This would be the inevitable price of such dem- 
ocratic folly. Nor will this be all ! What will become 
of the commerce and trade of these United States ? 
What of their agricultural products ; cotton, rice, corn, 
wheat and tobacco ? All our commerce with Europe 
would cease at once. And while our own goods would 
in part become valueless, we should be obliged to fore- 
go all the necessaries or luxuries we import from 
abroad. 

What would be tlie result ? — disunion and anarchy 
among the people, who, deprived of their property by 
being restricted in their means of living, of their enter- 
prise and thrift, the government would soon be sub- 
verted. 

Americans, it would be better now to expend a thou- 
sand millions to elect Millard Fillmore, whom you know 
and have tried then to elect Buchanan ! He may cost 
us our liberties ! In the other case, the money ivould 
sure to be returned to the people tenfold, in the confi- 
dence, and progress, and peace it would bring upon 
the whole Union. 

With a war in Kansas, which occupies a territory 
twice as large as England, Mr. Buchanan is pledged 



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also to carry out the Ostend Manifesto, if elected. 
Now what would ensue, Americans, if that were acted 
out ? We answer. War immediatchj with England, 
France and Spain ! And all commerce between the 
United States and the Western Coast of Europe would 
that moment cease. This would stop all exportations 
of cotton and breadstuffs to Europe, and precipitate 
us into anarchy and revolution. 

The real meaning of that Ostend Manifesto is conce- 
ded upon its face. It is deep, dark and malignant ; 
and if ever enforced, it will be by making the American 
people icade through seas of blood! As vre have 
already seen, it was the work of European revolution- 
ists and American tricksters. They who called them- 
selves Americans, were mosilj foreign born, with for- 
eign hearts, like Soule & Co. To this degrading busi- 
ness Mr. Buchanan became the pliant tool, because he 
wished to succeed Franklin Pierce at Washington, and 
was made to believe, therefore, this was the very best 
move. 

Mr. Buchanan has always been in the hands of very 

had managers^ who, to have him appear consistent, for 

i\\Q first time in his life, they corrupt him, again and 

again, to reiterate the policy of the government of the 

United States, as declared at Ostend in 1855. In his 

speech, accepting the nomination of the Cincinnatti 

Convention, hear what Buchanan says : 

" Gentlemen, two weeks since I should have made you a lonjrer 
speech, but now 1 have been placed upon a platform of which I 
most heartil}- approve, and that can speak for me. Being the lep- 
resentative of tlie great Democratic, Party, and not simply James 
Buchanan, I must square my co::duct according to the ))lat,foiiu of 
the party, and insert no new plank nor take one from il." 



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And tlic:i read the letter from Lis friend, M. A. G. 
Brown, to Hon. R. S. Adams, of the 18th June last, 
and you will find that Mr. Buchanan regards the acqui- 
sition of Cuba very desirable noiv, and likely to become 
a national necessity ; and says, " if I can be instrumen- 
tal in settling the Slavery question upon the terms I 
have named, and then add Cuba to the Union, I shall 
be willing to give up the ghost, and let Breckinridge 
take the government !" 

In a word, Mr. Buchanan says, " he stands upon the 
platform of the Cincinnati Convention, and endorses 
every part of it." Thus, Americans, you see for your- 
selves the political Mnkanna, into whose hands you 
place your destiny, if you ever select James Buchanan 
for your Chief Ruler ! Whoever has read that remark- 
able document, palled the Osiend Manifesto, should 
also read Brown's letter, giving an account of Buchan- 
an's acceptance of his nomination. 

Do this at once, Americans, do it for yourselves, and 
not allow any political leader to insult your intelli- 
gence, by telling you Buchanan will not follow the fili- 
bustering programme of the Cincinnati Convention ! 

You have his words that he icilL You have the 
pledge of his political suppoiters that he will. What 
other hnman testimony can you need to be combined ? 

It is time there was an end to ihis compact sale of 
the Romnn Catholic Irish and German votes- And 
the American party fears not to say, that, as foreign 
papists armed under their own flag, they must not and 
shall not, asforeig-ners, interfere with our just political 
rightg, to elevate aspiring demagogues of any party \ 



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My countiymen, we want a man to watch oyer the 
destinies of this people who recognizes the moral life 
and moral light of our free institutions, and whose 
character declares the free government for which we 
contend. Remember, that we tread upon the graves 
of our fathers, whose names, and hearths, and churches, 
and employments, were as dear to ithem, as are ours to 
us ! And that joy in life whicli made them fight for 
these privileges, calls upon us to-day to rally to the 
maintenance of the Union and the Constitution. We 
are surrounded by the cry for liljerty, as strongly as 
on that night when it came from Lexington and Bun- 
ker Hill, and called fathers, brothers and husbands to 
the field ! Our free government, Americans, is the 
last hope of the world ; and our fathers who bled and 
died for it — our mothers who sacrificed their all for it, 
call out to us from beneath the green turf, to come 
with heroic hearts — with good and true American 
hearts, trusting God and beseeching him to save the 
nation from the ills whicli Franklin Pierce and his 
administration have begun, and which may be con- 
summated by James Buclianan ! 

My countrymen, God has looked graciously and 
pitied our condition, and by his providence, the Ameri- 
can party comes as the break-water of liberty, against 
which the waves, and torrents of discord and disunion 
will beat in vain. And now, when mind is in close 
and sharp contact with mind, and division of opinion 
makes men impatient for decision, Millard Fillmore is 
een as the rainbow on the storm I And, under the 
Vmerican standard of the Bible and Liberty, the 



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American people may cry aloud to foreign enemies 
and domestic traitors, — "The Union must and shall 
be preserved." 

The best friends \re possess, are often those with 
whom we differ in opinion in private; and we make to 
them just such concessions as the North made to the 
South, and the South made to the North, when this 
beloved Union was cemented by brotherly love, and 
adjusted with all its delicate balances. 

In 1850, Mr. Fillmore, a Northern man, whose 
principles and conduct were all in consistency with 
those of his native State, was called by the death of 
Gen. Taylor to the Presidency of these United States. 
At tliat moment, the ability and patriotism of the 
whole country, North and South, were united in an 
effort to adjust the difficulties which impended by the 
acquisition of new territory ; and in tlie spirit of 
conciliation and compromise, which guided the framers 
of the Constitution, the Compromise Measures were 
the result of their common effort, irrespective of geo- 
graphical sections or distinction. This law was*passed, 
then, by the expressed will of the majority, and sub- 
mitted to Mr. Fillmore for his signature as President 
of the Nation. And after taking every precaution to 
fulfd the Constitutional requirements, by submitting it 
to the Attorney General for approval, Mr. Fillmore 
affixed to it his signature, and it became the law of the 
land ! 

Had Mr. Fillmore refused to sign this Compromise, 
he would have perilled the existence of the Union 



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instantly ; and patriots, from all sections, would have 
execrated him as a traitor, vjJiile Cong-ress would have 
impeached him ! He was ready, therefore, when duty 
and patriotism called, to forget all private preferences, 
to cast aside all personal predilections, and to look 
only to the maintenance of the Union and the glory of 
our whole country, as 07ie people ! 

"Was there any disposition then, manifested by Con- 
gress to repeal that act ? No ! It was the act of 
peace ; and Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, 
Hancock and Adams, would, if possible, have burst 
from their graves to have denounced the traitor who 
would have committed treason to the Constitution and 
laws, by refusing to sign the fugitive slave law. The 
veto power was not made by our father's to defeat the 
will of the majority, and turn the President of the 
country into an imperious autocrat ! And it is a cry- 
ing shame to forget that Millard Fillmore, all his life, 
has been fighting on the side of American princijjles 
and Union principles, and has saved the nation from 
sin and shame ! 

In conclusion, Americans, let us ask, are not all the 
antecedents of Millard Fillmore right ? Is there any 
back record which, if unrolled, would cause him to 
shrink from public scrutiny ? There is none. His 
life is open to the world. His integrity, honor and 
capability, as unquestionably settled and established, 
as were those exalted qualities in the character of 
Washington. In reference to the agitating topics of 
the day, where do we find Mr. Fillmore, by his votes 
in" Congress ? Always one way ; and that was, a con- 



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sistent, steady opposition to the extension of slavery — 
Opposed, jvst as Henry Clay tvas, to extending that 
institution over any portion of the free territory of 
the Union. He has ever maintahied the principle, 
that Congress nor the President have a right to disturb 
or interfere with the States in which slavery already 
exists, under the sanction of the Constitution and 
laws. 

Mr. Fillmore has expressly declared his hostility to 
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and every 
intelligent man and woman ought to know, that, under 
his administration, that repeal never conid have been 
obtained. Every patriot should know with how much 
heart and soul Millard Fillmore would delight to see 
that Compromise of 1820 restored, and the Union 
blessed with the peace and prosperity which pervaded 
every section of the country when he resigned the 
government into the hands of Franklin Pierce. No 
true American can rise in his place and point to an 
act of Mr. Fillmore that is not opposed to forcing 
slavery upon the free territory of this Union. That 
he is opposed to all piratical attempts to seize the ter- 
ritory belonging to other nations, is equally true. 
And so long as the Union and the Constitution have 
a martyr, Millard Fillmare will be found true tc 
their principles, and ready to aid in perpetuating thei}' 
glorious privileges. 

Here, then, in addition to the Pierce platform of the 
Democratic party, Mr. Buchanan is to give iis free 
trade, which means equal taxation from the pockets of 
the rich and poor ; free seas, or an entire ascendency 



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over the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean, and the Ca- 
nbean Sea, wliich will cost the nation additional taxa- 
lion of three himdred millions, and ivar with the three 
great powers of Europe I - X\y^ possession of Cuba, 
which he says we must huy, if we can; but if Spain 
IS obstniate, and refuses, then, "it becomes the duty of 
Americans to wr^st it from her by Divine rio-ht '" 
In other words, to steal Cuba! Spain, you know, 
Americans, loill refuse, and so does Mr. Buchanan 
i^now It, for she has the treaty of France and England 
to hack her in the act. But, says that manifesto, " If 
necessary, we ought neither to count the cost, nor re- 
gard the odds which Spain miglit enlist against us. 
We would be recreant to our duty, be unworthy our 
gallant forefathers, and commit base treason against 
our posterity." This foul slander is a base cahmny 
upon our honored dead. They cry out, from their 
charnei-liouses, shame, shame. And, adds Buchanan 
to Mr. Brown, "our necessities might require us to 
maue other acquisitions ! " 

It is the interest, aim and wish of all true Ameri- 
cans, to remain at peace. And, last of all, to go to 
war with our best customers abroad, from whom we 
buy and to whom we sell. And, it is all idle to try to 
force conviction upon the minds of the American peo- 
ple, that it is their duty to inflict a blow upon any 
nation without their rights have been sacrificed or 
tneir principles invaded. 

If Buchanan is elected, the Pacific Rail-Road will 
never be built. Instead of which, he will continue to 
^ock up the people's money and keep it from the trade 



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and commerce of the country. The Executive of 
Pierce brouglit up the hands of the government and 
paid five millions of the people's money, while they 
were suffering for the wages of labor ! 

Since the influx of gold from California, nearly 
four hundred millions has been added to the circula- 
tion of the country, or at the rate of thirty-six mil- 
lions annually. And yet, the Democratic party, instead 
of managing this judiciously, and keeping the country 
out of debt, have actually run the people into four or 
five hundred millions of useless expense, while j^ets 
have been pampered and fed from the treasury, to per- 
petuate the power ; and by interfering, as in the local 
elections of all the States, and by means of the pat- 
ronage of government, all but themselves under foot. 

Now, my countrymen, you see precisely what you 
have to expect by perpetuating the Democratic Execu- 
tive of Franklin Pierce ! The same home, and a icorse 
foreign policy, the same anti-American feeling and 
contemptible subserviency to the foreign Roman Catho- 
lic hierarchy ! You ask, how do we know this ? We 
answer, that it is as well understood that James Bu- 
chanan, headed with the foreign Catholic vote in 1852, 
for Pierce, which put an Irish Catholic in the Cabinet 
from Pennsylvania, as that he defeated Henry Clay 
for the Presidency, in Pennsylvania, in '44, when he 
practised the gross fraud upon that people, and de- 
clared to them that James K. Polk was a better tariff 
man than Henry Clay ? But for this, Mr. Clay would 
have filled the office of President, to which he was most 
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